Re: Who were the Aryans?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jordan179) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > >   Aphrodite?
> > 
> > Who had nothing to recommend her (no brains or morals to speak of) besides
> > her beauty.
> 
> Ah, so I'm not the ONLY one who's read the myth like that. Thank you.
> 
> I suspect that Athena would concur in your estimate of Aphrodite's character. 
> ;-)
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Jordan

That reminds me of a take I've had on the judgement of Paris.

OK, he's got three goddesses, and he's expected to pick between for
the most beautiful.  All three of them already have their egos in a
twist at the start.  They initialy wanted Zeus to judge the matter,
but Zeus decided that was a headache he didn't need that century, and
so picked Paris as judge because he as a needed a complete
idiot-sorry, for his fair mind. :)

All three goddesses promptly offer bribes (just to put to rest any
thought of this being on honest contest).

Athena offers tremendous wisdom and power.

Hera offers to make him fantastically wealthy.

Aphrodite offers him the hand of the most beautiful mortal woman alive
(Helen).

Paris promptly chooses option 3.  (Proving Zeus' estimate of Paris'
intelligence correct, since it nevers occurs to him that he could have
chosen Athena's bribe, and used wisdom and power to get fantastic
wealth, and probably Helen with the wealth, or he could at least have
chosen Hera's bribe, and still used the fantastic wealth to get
Helen.)